Ballad: When The King Comes Home In Peace Again



From a broadside in the Roxburghe Collection of Ballads. It
appears to have been written shortly after Martin Parker's original
ballad obtained popularity among the Royalists, and to be by
another hand. It bears neither date nor printer's name; and has
"God save the King, Amen," in large letters at the end.


Oxford and Cambridge shall agree,
With honour crown'd, and dignity;
For learned men shall then take place,
And bad be silenced with disgrace:
They'll know it to be but a casualty
That hath so long disturb'd their brain;
For I can surely tell that all things will go well
When the King comes home in peace again.

Church government shall settled be,
And then I hope we shall agree
Without their help, whose high-brain'd zeal
Hath long disturb'd the common weal;
Greed out of date, and cobblers that do prate
Of wars that still disturb their brain;
The which you will see, when the time it shall be
That the King comes home in peace again.

Though many now are much in debt,